AI blog question challenge

Rishabh P. Sharma posed the AI blog question challenge. Rishabh writes about being an “AI Hater”. It seems strange to me to have such intense feelings about AI. I guess that makes me “neutral” by Rishabh’s measure. I think pragmatist is perhaps more accurate. How was your first experience with AI models? I was feeling bored during Christmas 2019 and started learning to code (Python). By December 2022 I was working on an app to automate a staff allocation task. This was an optimisation problem. A problem where you’re trying to find the best combination from a large set of options. To help solve it I used the PuLP module to work with mixed integer linear equations (MILP). Sounds confusing? It did to me. To expedite the development process I used ChatGPT to help with writing the equations. It did very well. Not perfect of course but a massive help. From that point on I have continued to explore the utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) at home and at work. Do you use AI or are you…